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Vaginal hysterectomy is best, physicians group says
Booster ShotsHysterectomy is one of the most common surgeries performed in the United States, and doctors can use several methods to remove the uterus, including traditional, open surgery; laparoscopic hysterectomy; and vaginal hysterectomy. The American College of... -
Record-Setting Kidney Swap Saves Lives
Associated PressWASHINGTON - Twenty-six operations put healthy kidneys into 13 desperately ill people: Doctors in the nation's capital just performed a record-setting kidney swap, part of a pioneering effort to expand transplants to patients who too often never qualify....Tags: Demographics, Charity, Dialysis, Happiness (state of mind), Takoma Park (Montgomery, Maryland)
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Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg Released from Hospital
KTLA NewsWASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was released from a Washington hospital Friday after spending the night there as a precaution. The 76-year-old justice planned to be back at work later Friday, the court said in a statement after...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Biotechnology, Science and Technology, The Ohio State University, Diseases and Illnesses
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DANGEROUS REMEDY
Sun reporterAmerican military doctors in Iraq have injected more than 1,000 of the war's wounded troops with a potent and largely experimental blood-coagulating drug despite mounting medical evidence linking it to deadly blood clots that lodge in the lungs, heart and...Tags: Washington, DC, Air and Space Accidents, Disasters and Accidents, Research, Surgery
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Robert Prosky dies at 77; stage, TV and film actor appeared in 'Hill Street Blues'
Robert Prosky, a character actor with hundreds of film, TV and stage credits, and whose roles included an avuncular sergeant on the NBC police drama "Hill Street Blues" and a desperate real estate salesman in David Mamet's play "Glengarry Glen Ross,"...Tags: Hill Street Blues (tv program), Literature, Washington, DC, Tony Awards, Arts and Culture
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Doctors say fatigue caused Kennedy's seizure
Doctors are blaming fatigue for the seizure that Senator Edward M. Kennedy, ill with a brain tumor, suffered during a post-inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama. Dr. Edward Aulisi, Washington Hospital Center's neurosurgery chairman, says...Tags: Fatigue, Hospitals and Clinics, Medical Procedures and Tests, Health, Barack Obama
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List Of Transplant Facilities Not Meeting Standards
To qualify for Medicare funding, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires transplant centers to perform a certain number of transplants annually and achieve a specific unadjusted survival rate for patients one year after surgery....Tags: Utah, Ohio, Hawaii, Nebraska, Surgery
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Tornado kills two UM students
Sun StaffCOLLEGE PARK - A tornado blazed a 10-mile-long path of destruction through Central Maryland at rush hour yesterday afternoon, killing two Howard County sisters and injuring dozens of people while ripping the roofs off buildings and flinging cars through...Tags: Fires, The Home Depot, Weather, Arts and Culture, Vehicles
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La Plata twister Md.'s worst
Sun StaffLA PLATA - The tornado that roared across Southern Maryland on Sunday night, killing three people, was the worst twister in state history, the National Weather Service reported yesterday. And it showed. Stunned residents and elected officials who...Tags: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Fox Broadcasting Company, Government, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Arts and Culture
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Maryland's lost
Sept. 19, 2001 Still more Maryland residents are dead or missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Amelia Fields Amelia Fields, 38, a clerical worker who had been transferred to the Pentagon on Sept. 10, is listed as missing. Mrs. Fields grew up...Tags: Geography, Real Estate Transactions, Australia (movie), Government, Awards and Prizes
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'No guarantees' that mail is safe, postmaster says
Sun StaffTrying to reassure postal workers and an anxious public, the postmaster general moved to shore up the U.S. postal system against biological attack -- even suggesting that people should wash their hands after touching their mail. "We're telling people...Tags: Arts and Culture, Office Equipment and Supplies, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Labor Legislation, Gaithersburg (Montgomery, Maryland)
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